European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 161

Volume 161, Number 1, February 2005

• Abdelhakim Artiba, Salah E. Elmaghraby:
  IEPM: Focus on scheduling. 1-2
  
• Cherif Sadfi, Bernard Penz, Christophe Rapine, Jacek Blazewicz, Piotr Formanowicz:
  An improved approximation algorithm for the single machine total completion time scheduling problem with availability constraints. 3-10
  
• Nour El Houda Saadani, Alain Guinet, Mohamed Moalla:
  A travelling salesman approach to solve the F. 11-20
  
• Nour El Houda Saadani, Pierre Baptiste, Mohamed Moalla:
  The simple F. 21-31
  
• Ameur Soukhal, Ammar Oulamara, P. Martineau:
  Complexity of flow shop scheduling problems with transportation constraints. 32-41
  
• Taïcir Loukil, Jacques Teghem, Daniel Tuyttens:
  Solving multi-objective production scheduling problems using metaheuristics. 42-61
  
• Ameur Soukhal, P. Martineau:
  Resolution of a scheduling problem in a flowshop robotic cell. 62-72
  
• G. Cavory, Rémy Dupas, Gilles Goncalves:
  A genetic approach to solving the problem of cyclic job shop scheduling with linear constraints. 73-85
  
• Haldun Aytug, Mark A. Lawley, Kenneth McKay, Shantha Mohan, Reha Uzsoy:
  Executing production schedules in the face of uncertainties: A review and some future directions. 86-110
  
• André Thomas, Patrick Charpentier:
  Reducing simulation models for scheduling manufacturing facilities. 111-125
  
• Michel Gourgand, Nathalie Grangeon, Sylvie Norre:
  Markovian analysis for performance evaluation and scheduling in m. 126-147
  
• Maysa S. De Magalhães, Francisco D. Moura Neto:
  Joint economic model for totally adaptive X and R charts. 148-161
  
• Baris Yalabik, Nicholas C. Petruzzi, Dilip Chhajed:
  An integrated product returns model with logistics and marketing coordination. 162-182
  
• Timothy S. Vaughan:
  Failure replacement and preventive maintenance spare parts ordering policy. 183-190
  
• Yuyue Song, Gin Hor Chan:
  Single item lot-sizing problems with backlogging on a single machine at a finite production rate. 191-202
  
• Amy Hing Ling Lau, Hon-Shiang Lau:
  Some two-echelon supply-chain games: Improving from deterministic-symmetric-information to stochastic-asymmetric-information models. 203-223
  
• Anthony Bedford, Panlop Zeephongsekul:
  On a dual queueing system with preemptive priority service discipline. 224-239
  
• J. René van Dorp:
  Statistical dependence through common risk factors: With applications in uncertainty analysis. 240-255
  
• Eungab Kim:
  Optimal inventory replenishment policy for a queueing system with finite waiting room capacity. 256-274
  
• Sébastien Thomassey, Michel Happiette, Jean Marie Castelain:
  A short and mean-term automatic forecasting system--application to textile logistics. 275-284
  
• Gur Mosheiov, Daniel Oron:
  A note on flow-shop and job-shop batch scheduling with identical processing-time jobs. 285-291
  
• Denis Bouyssou:
  Review of "Operational Research in War and Peace, The British Experience from the 1930s to 1970" by Maurice W. Kirby, Imperial College Press, 2003. 292-294
  

Volume 161, Number 2, March 2005

• Jaap Spronk, Nico van der Wijst:
  Financial modelling and the quality of corporate reports. 295-297
  
• Norbert J. Jobst, Stavros A. Zenios:
  On the simulation of portfolios of interest rate and credit risk sensitive securities. 298-324
  
• Carl Chiarella, Les Clewlow, Silvana Musti:
  A volatility decomposition control variate technique for Monte Carlo simulations of Heath Jarrow Morton models. 325-336
  
• Zdenek Zmeskal:
  Value at risk methodology under soft conditions approach (fuzzy-stochastic approach). 337-347
  
• Marida Bertocchi, Rosella Giacometti, Stavros A. Zenios:
  Risk factor analysis and portfolio immunization in the corporate bond market. 348-363
  
• Eugene Nivorozhkin:
  Market discipline of subordinated debt in banking: The case of costly bankruptcy. 364-376
  
• Margherita Cigola, Lorenzo Peccati:
  On the comparison between the APV and the NPV computed via the WACC. 377-385
  
• Rita Laura D'Ecclesia, Stavros A. Zenios:
  Estimation of asset demands by heterogeneous agents. 386-398
  
• Sunju Park, Michael H. Rothkopf:
  Auctions with bidder-determined allowable combinations. 399-415
  
• Efthalia Dimara, Christos J. Pantzios, Dimitris Skuras, Kostas Tsekouras:
  The impacts of regulated notions of quality on farm efficiency: A DEA application. 416-431
  
• A. S. Camanho, R. G. Dyson:
  Cost efficiency measurement with price uncertainty: a DEA application to bank branch assessments. 432-446
  
• Andrew Chen, Yuhchang Hwang, Benjamin Shao:
  Measurement and sources of overall and input inefficiencies: Evidences and implications in hospital services. 447-468
  
• Timothy W. Butler, Ling Li:
  The utility of returns to scale in DEA programming: An analysis of Michigan rural hospitals. 469-477
  
• Isabel Martins, Miguel Constantino, José G. Borges:
  A column generation approach for solving a non-temporal forest harvest model with spatial structure constraints. 478-498
  
• Bert De Reyck:
  On "investment decisions in the theory of finance: Some antinomies and inconsistencies". 499-504
  
• Niv Ahituv, Gil Greenstein:
  The impact of accessibility on the value of information and the productivity paradox. 505-524
  
• Henrik Jaldell:
  Output specification and performance measurement in fire services: An ordinal output variable approach. 525-535
  
• Toshiyuki Sueyoshi, Kazuyuki Sekitani:
  Returns to scale in dynamic DEA. 536-544
  
• Yao Chen:
  Measuring super-efficiency in DEA in the presence of infeasibility. 545-551
  
• V. V. Podinovski:
  Selective convexity in DEA models. 552-563
  
• Dieter Gstach:
  Estimating output targets to evaluate output-specific efficiencies: A statistical framework. 564-578
  
• Lawrence M. Seiford, Joe Zhu:
  A response to comments on modeling undesirable factors in efficiency evaluation. 579-581
  
• René Victor Valqui Vidal:
  J. Rosenhead and J. Mingers (Eds.), Rational Analysis for a Problematic World Revisited, Problem Structuring Methods for Complexity, Uncertainty and Conflict, Wiley, Chichester, 2001. 582-583
  

Volume 161, Number 3, March 2005

• Jacek Blazewicz, Piotr Formanowicz, Marta Kasprzak:
  Selected combinatorial problems of computational biology. 585-597
  
• Immanuel M. Bomze:
  Optimization of functions with rank-two variation over a box. 598-617
  
• E. Mijangos:
  An efficient method for nonlinearly constrained networks. 618-635
  
• Rachid Chelouah, Patrick Siarry:
  A hybrid method combining continuous tabu search and Nelder-Mead simplex algorithms for the global optimization of multiminima functions. 636-654
  
• Manuel A. Gómez:
  A null-space method for computing the search direction in the general inertia-controlling method for dense quadratic programming. 655-662
  
• Marvin D. Troutt, Suresh K. Tadisina, Changsoo Sohn, Alan A. Brandyberry:
  Linear programming system identification. 663-672
  
• S. K. Mishra, Shouyang Wang:
  Second order symmetric duality for nonlinear multiobjective mixed integer programming. 673-682
  
• Jeffrey L. Rummel, Zhiping D. Walter, Rajiv M. Dewan, Abraham Seidmann:
  Activity consolidation to improve responsiveness. 683-703
  
• Alfredo Anglani, Antonio Grieco, Emanuela Guerriero, Roberto Musmanno:
  Robust scheduling of parallel machines with sequence-dependent set-up costs. 704-720
  
• Jérôme Monnot:
  Approximation algorithms for the maximum Hamiltonian path problem with specified endpoint(s). 721-735
  
• W. Kulpa, M. Pordzik, L. Socha, M. Turzanski:
  L. 736-753
  
• Masao Yokoyama, Daryl L. Santos:
  Three-stage flow-shop scheduling with assembly operations to minimize the weighted sum of product completion times. 754-770
  
• Roberto Montemanni, Luca Maria Gambardella:
  A branch and bound algorithm for the robust spanning tree problem with interval data. 771-779
  
• Supachai Pathumnakul, Pius J. Egbelu:
  Algorithm for minimizing weighted earliness penalty in single-machine problem. 780-796
  
• Jiuh-Biing Sheu:
  A multi-layer demand-responsive logistics control methodology for alleviating the bullwhip effect of supply chains. 797-811
  
• James R. Bradley:
  Optimal control of a dual service rate M/M/1 production-inventory model. 812-837
  
• Michael Z. F. Li:
  Pricing non-storable perishable goods by using a purchase restriction: General optimality results. 838-853
  
• Xue-Ming Yuan, Liming Liu:
  Performance analysis of assembly systems with unreliable machines and finite buffers. 854-871
  
• René Victor Valqui Vidal:
  Michael C. Jackson, Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers, John Wiley, Chichester. 872-873